The Diplomat The Spanish survivors of the shipwreck of the fishing boat 'Argos Georgia', which occurred last Monday in Malvinas waters, arrived in Spain early yesterday afternoon. The return was carried out in an operation coordinated by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence and a diplomat from the Consular Emergency Division travelled with the Spanish. At one in the afternoon, the Airbus A330 aircraft of the 45th Air Force Group of the Air and Space Force chartered by the Government to repatriate the crew of the fishing boat landed at the Military Aerodrome of Santiago de Compostela. The four Galicians who were part of the crew disembarked there and were awaited by their families, as well as by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, the Minister of the Sea, Alfonso Villares, and the Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, among others. One of the sailors was treated upon arrival by members of the Aeroevacuation Medical Unit (UMAER). The aircraft, which departed from Stanley airport at around 9:00 p.m. (Spanish time), then continued its route to the Torrejón de Ardoz aerodrome in Madrid, to take the other survivors: two Spaniards who worked on the ship as observers and seven foreign sailors of different nationalities. Meanwhile, the bodies of the deceased sailors will be transferred to Oxfordshire, in England, for autopsies to be performed, in compliance with the protocols required by the British authorities.
